You could split the output of Pixies into two eras. There's their early work — the seminal albums they put out in the years after forming in Boston in 1986, like Surfer Rosa, Doolittle and Trompe le ...

After selling out an entire 19-stop North American tour together in the summer of 2023, Pixies, Modest Mouse and Cat Power are back on the road for another round. On Thursday, the three groups played ...

Kurt Cobain cited Pixies as a key inspiration, fretting he may even have ripped them off. The late-'80s indie band is still recording, still touring — and racking up billions of Spotify streams. By ...

With the fifth installment of their second coming, Pixies carry some of their signature blend of chaos and charm into the present, but don’t quite hit the high notes of their classic earlier work. The ...

Sometimes, all it takes is a few sharp notes to create an era-defining guitar riff. Joey Santiago, lead guitarist for the Pixies, knows this well: his angular, melodic playing has defined some of the ...

Pixies frontman Black Francis began Friday’s concert at MGM Music Hall at Fenway with an invitation to step into a time machine set to 1990. “The sun was still shining brightly on the college rock era ...

Earlier this year, former Band of Skulls bassist Emma Richardson was painting in her London studio when the phone rang. It was producer Tom Dalgety with a rather urgent matter to discuss. He was ...

It seemed like there was a period of time when every alternative or punk compilation record had a Pixies song on it, and while adult-alternative compilation records may have gone by the wayside, ...

The Pixies have got history with Brixton Academy. It was at the south London venue that they last played in the UK, in 1991, before their split in 1993, ending an imperial five-album phase that ...

As the lead single from Pixies’ second album Doolittle (1989), “Monkey Gone to Heaven” was the first song many people had heard from the Boston-based alternative rock band. It still stands as one of ...